29 Jan
1998
29 Jan
'98
10:45 p.m.
Sun
SPAREprinter model QA-6, anyone know how to do a self
print test on this unit I can not find any buttons or anything;
It will not do much unless you have it connected to a SPARCstation
running NeWSprint. The SPARCstation also requires a special S-bus card to
interface to the printer.
In other words, you have either a worthless printer, or a good excuse to
go get yourself a SPARCstation. 
30 Jan
30 Jan
8:40 a.m.
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9:14 a.m.
Big snip!
Oh man, I used to work on those Qume daisy wheel printers, oh, I hate
that when I have to find a good usable cogged belts for those that
shredded belts into brunch of strings from junked Qume printers
They're very heavy and refuses to die aside from rare circuit
failures also repairable easily. :) Yep, they have those
adapters cartidges with interface cable attach with tons of switches
on them. Has cooling fan on right side whirring away. They
made funny rubbery stuttering noises when printing and shaking the
table with it.
Jason D.
Which reminds me - I have a couple of Diablo 630
printers with ECS
daisywheels which have strange edge connectors on the back. I am told
this is a Qume Sprint 3 interface - has anyone got a technical spec.?
I believe it's _similar_ to the Qume interface, but may be slightly
different. I have an older Diablo Hi-type with such an interface. The
machine it plugs into (A Diamond V word processor) has one of the cards
with pads for 2 different 50 pin connectors labeled 'Qume' and 'Diablo'.
Of course Diablo may have also built printers with a Qume interface on them.
Jason D.
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
From memory, it's something like 22 bits,
parallel. You specify the
character on the print wheel (7 bits?), the print hammer
operation
(possibly several bits for different forces), the ammount to move the
carriage by, the ammount to move the paper by, etc. And there's a lot of
status lines for things like ribbon out, paper out, busy, etc.
It's a pretty low-level interface. I will see if I can find at least a
pin-out for you...
Philip.
-tony
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